readline 4.2 update

[Elena Zannoni]

David O'Brien writes:
 > Its been _over_ am month now since your responce.  And 2 months since my
 > request to do this, and over a year since you said you would import 4.2
 > when you got "a spare moment".  Please either do it, or give me
 > permission to do it.  FreeBSD needs this, SuSE needs this as we both link
 > gdb with a system libreadline.
 > 
 > -- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

sorry. Gdb is supposed to branch on the 4th of September, how about
right after that? Alternatively, would making a branch and importing
readline there help?  Are you linking with 4.2 or 4.3?

Elena




 > 
 > 
 > On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:45:08AM -0400, Elena Zannoni wrote:
 > > Elena Zannoni writes:
 > >  > Christopher Faylor writes:
 > >  >  > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002@09:02:35AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
 > >  >  > >On Fri, Jul 05, 2002@10:49:07AM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
 > >  >  > >> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002@06:18:45PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
 > >  >  > >> > Would it be possible for src/readline to be updated to 4.2 before the
 > >  >  > >> > next major GDB release?  At the moment it is impossible to build stock
 > >  >  > >> > sources with the latest stock libreadline (which is installed as a
 > >  >  > >> > separate lib in FreeBSD) due to conflicting definitions of `tilde_expand'
 > >  >  > >> > in gdb/defs.h.
 > >  >  > >> 
 > >  >  > >> Latest readline version is 4.2a.
 > >  >  > >
 > >  >  > >Works for me too. :-)
 > >  >  > >But I haven't heard any opinion about updating readline.
 > >  >  > 
 > >  >  > I'm sure it's just a matter of tuit cycles for the person responsible for
 > >  >  > importing readline.
 > >  >  > cgf
 > >  > 
 > >  > Yes, that would be me. I'll bump up the priority of the task.
 > >  > Elena
 > > 
 > > Ah, readline4.3 just came out....
 > > Elena